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Created a local working copy... guide to creating a bare clone on my webserver?

Benjamin Allison

I'm a total noob to git, and hate (HATE) working in the Terminal (which is why I'm using SourceTree!).

Here's the issue. I've created my local working copy. Everything's humming along nicely. Now what I want to do is create a bare clone on my webserver, and allow SourceTree to push changes to it.

I'm hosting on MediaTemple. They're set up for git, and I've created my subdomain as they recommend (git.mydomain.com).

The plan is to put the clone in git.mydomain.com, and then push changes which will appear on the live site, mydomain.com

I'm hoping to do all this from within SourceTree but am struggling to determing how to actually achieve that. Is this possible? Is there any kind of guide that can walk me through the steps?

Accepted answers

KieranA

Hey Benjamin,

Unfortunately you will have to hop on the server via the terminal in order to initialise the remote repository so you can push to it. By whatever option MediaTemplate give you, presumably SSH access via your terminal so you can log in, go to the remote location pertaining to git.mydomain.com and initalise a bare repository by doing "git init --bare".

In SourceTree you'll then want to add a new remote and specify your MediaTemplate server's URL as the remote. From here you can then push to it because you're probably using the same SSH keys as before from when logging in.

Hope that helps, if not, feel free to ask away!

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KieranA

Hey Benjamin,

Hope that helps, if not, feel free to ask away!

Benjamin Allison

Thanks Kieran! That's not sooooooobad. So, do I simply initialize a repo on the server, and then push everything to it, or do I have to clone first?

And one completely random question about terminal/repo addres: so I assume you meant I needed to enter the username/url combination (mydomain.com@s#####.gridserver.com). However, my repo is in a subdomain: git.mydomain.com. How do I specify that in SourceTree, since the MediaTemple server address is mydomain.com@s#####.gridserver.com? Not sure if that's making sense (or how familiar you are with MediaTemple).

Thanks for your help!

Benjamin Allison

I'm assuming it needs something like this?

mydomain.com@s######.gridserver.com:domains/git.mydomain.com/html/repo.git

However, everytime I add a server URL, it vanishes...

Benjamin Allison

SoI seem to be getting somewhere:

ssh://username@git.mydomain.com/repo.git

But I'm getting an error when I try to push:

fatal: '/repo.git' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

But I know that's the location of the repo I set up server side using git init --bare

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